It’s that time of year already! The wife and I are headed out soon for a few weeks of fun with family and should be back around the 10th of January. From our family to yours, we hope you have a very happy and safe holiday season! In other news, I started working on a Twisted Roots cover song yesterday that I think is coming along well enough that I’ll probably post sometime late-January or February, if those guys don’t mind of course. I’m by no means out of songwriting ideas of my own, but I rather enjoy playing around with other songs that inspire me. Twisted Roots, while having an entirely different sound to my own, inspires me. They represent an important part of my life both musically and personally, plus they’re pretty cool guys too. Definitely check out their music if you get the chance, and expect my version to be slightly… interpreted. Here’s quick teaser: See all of you in 2010! Read More →
Reflecting back on the past ten years, now that 2010 is rapidly approaching. There’s something weird that happens to time once you get out of high school, like somebody hit the fast-forward button! Still, it’s been a great decade, and I’ve inevitably evolved a ton over the course of it. Let’s hit the highlights in brief shall we? 10 years ago, my son was 3 4 years ago, I met the woman that was to become my wife 3 years ago, I moved to San Diego 1 year ago, I turned 30 (ok, almost two years ago..) In April of this year, I began writing my own music.. I’m really content with the way things have turned out so far. Here’s hoping that the next decade is even better! Things certainly do feel brighter! Read More →
As some of you know, I decided to do something unique with my new song by debuting it inside of a Virtual World platform called Metaplace. That proved to be an interesting experiment and generated a decent little crowd of 20 or so across the event, with a little help rounding people up thanks to Cuppycake. While some aspects of doing this were a little cludgy (the fact that I’m holding an acoustic guitar in-world, but not actually playing one in the song, just looks strange.. for example), the actual execution of essentially playing a set of my mp3’s for an audience couldn’t have been easier and for essentially NO real planning-time, I’d still call this event a huge success! I may do this again in the future, possibly in a custom-built world and a bunch of actual planning. We shall see, but in any case it was fun giving it a shot! Oh, and I had my first virtual-world hecklers too! I’m living the life now.. YEAH! =) Read More →
